Good morning Elad,

I'm so sorry- I missed your last message to me. I didn't see it! Life has been busy and I wanted to take some time to think about all of the questions and answer authentically. So here goes....

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape ...

Yes, that does resonate with me.

And yes, I’m ready for the questions:-)

Sincerely,
Amy

Good morning Elad,

It has taken me a week to think about what I was going to write to you and to really look at the answer to the question below. In some ways I wanted to just leave things alone. Allow everything to be just as it is for a while. Then, I wanted to keep seeing truth again and again ...

Good morning Elad,

I have thought about writing you so many times. I've composed several responses to you in my head. But they kept changing, morphing, and when I thought I had a story to tell you, it just didn't seem real. At one point, I thought I should compose you a poem to express how I was ...

Good morning Elad,

Well imagine a human with no capacity to differentiate what is - conventionally - their feelings and thoughts versus others. That would be pretty problematic right? Actually quite a lot of mental imbalances have to do with distortions around this capacity for differentiation ...

Good morning Elad,

“”Good lets focus here next. Is there in fact an "I" needed or present to create the belief that irritation or some other emotion or pattern should not be there? Or is it just another conditioning, whatever sequence of experiences and events created the belief "this feeling ...

Good Morning Elad,

And where is this "me" for whom a state could ever be permanent? ;)


Where indeed. This "me" seems to not be permanent in any way. The idea of me comes up when a story starts to form and I attach to it with a belief. That belief is that the story is real and I am the one ...

Good morning Elad,

It seems like I have always been looking for an answer to end suffering. Before I started this journey with you, I thought that if I could control my thoughts, just have more positive thoughts, practice them enough, I could end suffering. And there are many teachers out there ...

Good afternoon Elad,

I'm glad to hear you are enjoying a little time off:-)

When the opportunity to stay with the contraction shows up, do that, separating it from thoughts, and see what happens.

As I have done this I find that I meet the sensation in the body and my mind immediately wants to ...

Good morning Elad,

Discomfort is an inevitable part of life in many situations.


I have tried my best to sit with this statement, over and over again. Mostly it has just triggered more and more thoughts. Many of the thoughts say, "but I don't like the discomfort." I know it will always be a part ...

Good morning Elad,

Write me what moves and shows up on its own.


Looking at control again and again. There is this feeling of something here to "deal with"... a situation, worry, concern etc. When that shows up, there is an energetic feeling contraction, tightening. I would label this sensation ...

Good morning Elad,

I spent the weekend really trying to LOOK.

What is this experience of it "trying to protect" ? How exactly is that experienced directly, beyond just mere belief, how is it felt exactly, beyond words?

It is experienced as a sensation of tightening or contracting in the body ...

Good afternoon,

Who or what is this "I in control"? How is the belief in this "I" held without any evidence of an I ?


The belief that there is an "I" seems to be present in thoughts. When I keep looking for an "I", there is not one that can be found. It feels more like a habitual protection of ...

Good morning Elad,

This was a hard one. I've tried my best so here goes. If I were to give myself a grade on a test for these questions, it would not be an "A", lol.


What is the fear afraid will happen if it is not there to protect?

If the fear is not there to protect, the imagined feared ...

Good morning Elad,

Hope you had a wonderful weekend:-)

Is there santa claus here?
Is there a unicorn here?
Is there a self here?

No, there is no Santa Claus here, or unicorn here, or self that I can find. The third one is harder for me. I keep feeling like there is a sense of self, not when I ...